You could say that about home invasions too.
"If the homeowner hadn't retrieved his weapon, no one would have been hurt."
"Property is not worth a human life."
He wasn’t in the house. This differs from the Rittenhouse shooting because the home owner backed off to put distance between him and the assailant. The victim was not physically threatening the home owner when he went and got a gun. The video doesn’t show what the victim was doing when he was shot. Was he advancing on the guy with the gun? Was he just standing there?
P.S. The gun looks like a Hi Point 9mm carbine.
Just watched the second video. Looks like the victim was NOT advancing on the homeowner when he was shot.
Why isn’t property worth a human life? Say someone steals $1,000 out of my pocket. I cannot replace that, it represents 40 hours of my life that I can never get back. They stole my life force and the fuel, the time away from wife and kids to earn that. I can make more money, by trading my precious life force for it, but the money stolen is gone forever. Now if they steal my $55,000 truck that I paid for with over a years worth of time, it is even more likely I would shoot the thief.
Property is time, time is finite. We only have so much of it, and stealing the life force that I sacrificed for the property should be a death penalty, or compensate me fully. Even if it means the thief becomes my slave until his debt is paid.
While I agree in principle, a jury isn’t going to see it that way.
Even in Texas.